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Destination Unknown

Agatha Christie

Start date: November 1, 2021

Finish date: November 30, 2021

Discussion: Group Challenges

Why we're reading this: Another title in our Assorted Christies challenge.
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Oct 22, 2021 Susan in NC rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I really enjoyed this international thriller, another Christie I had never read. I read it for the Reading the Detectives group’s November book in this year’s excellent “Assorted Christies” challenge, a list featuring the prolific author’s books that did not feature Miss Marple or Hercules Poirot.

At first, this seemed very similar to another thriller we read this year, “They Came to Baghdad”, both were published in the 1950s, had female leads facing murky, omnipotent international forces for evi ...more

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Sep 06, 2022 Grisette rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 3rd-pers-narration, my-kind-of-detective-thriller

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3.8 stars

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🔹️ Number of death/s: 1 (off book)
🔹️ Motive for the crime: Money
🔹️ Method of crime: Poison (not specified)
🔹️ Main location: Morocco
🔹️ Notable element: A James Bond villain atmosphere, only averted into extreme capitalism
🔹️ Book type: Novel, Amateur Detective
🔹️ Reference to SH: -

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I have read most AC books, but this book is the only book for which I had no inkling of the subject matter. And so, it was with gleeful energy that I jumped into it blind.

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Dec 19, 2018 Shabbeer Hassan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: detective-thriller, thriller, 2018

So what happens when the queen of mystery decides to write a fast-paced spy thriller? Do we get gold or rather a sorry, stretched-out affair? The answer surprisingly and rather refreshingly (after reading the tired, Mc-Gyver ish Jack Reacher novels) is bloody good!

We have international intrigue, a spidery web of deception, multiple identities, unwitting spies, Cold War-esque theatre of war and a credible, twisty mystery at the heart of it all.

My Rating - 4/5

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Jul 08, 2017 Nanosynergy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, 2017read, fiction-1950s, british, mysteries-thrillers-espionage, reviewed

A spy/espionage story with a plucky heroine. The divorced Hillary Craven, whose only child has died, travels to a Morocco to commit suicide in her despair. Instead, British secret agent Jessop recruits her for a potentially suicidal secret mission. She agrees to impersonate the wife of a missing scientist, killed in a plane crash on her way to join her husband, in an effort to help Jessop find him. Her chance of surviving the mission is 100 to 1.

Three stars because it's a Christie book. But I sh ...more

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